'Ml. W. L. Distant on Iloinoptcra. 325 



base ; body beneath black ; lateral martrins of face, log.', 

 rostrum, and a spot near base of anal segment oclir.iceous ; 

 lc<i;s more or less spotted or suffused witli piccous ; te;,nnina 

 black, a costal spot a little beyond middle, a broad central 

 annulate transverse fascia commencing beneath the costal 

 spot, broadly extending inwardly at about ono-third from 

 posterior claval margin, and then more narrowly and straightly 

 continued to posterior claval margin at about one-third from 

 base, and the a|)ical margin beneath apex greyish white ; 

 wings |)ale fuscous hyaline, the veins piceous; pronotuui 

 with a central longitudinal carination ; mesonotum tricarinate, 

 the central carination straight, tlie lateral carinations curved 

 and meeting on anterior margin, the latter also connected 

 with the anterior margin by a straight carination from near 

 their middle ; tegmina short and broad. 



Var. a. — Tegmina v/ith the costal and apical marginal pale 

 markings present, but the large diseal fascia absent. 



Var. b. — Costal spat present or obsolete, remaining pale 

 markings absent. 



Long., excl. tegm., G mm. ; exp, tegm. IG to 18 mm. 



Ha''. Queensland {F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Ricania aurora, sp. n. 



Vertex and pronotum pale ochraceous; mesonotum brownish 

 ochraceous, with a black spot on each posterior lateral margin ; 

 abdomen above, I ody beneath, and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 tegmina pale shining ochraceous, a ])aler ochraceous spot 

 crossing costal membrane at apex of radial area, just beyond 

 which there is a black spot and another of the same colour at 

 apex near margin ; wings hyaline, with the venation pale 

 ochraceous ; face broad, faintly tricarinate, none of the 

 carinations reaching the posterior margin ; vertex and pro- 

 notum centrally longitudinally finely carinate ; mesonotum 

 finely tricarinate, the Iflteral carinations curved, meetino^ on 

 anterior margin and also connected with it by a straifht 

 carinate line on each side ; tegmina short and broad, their 

 aj'ices conve.xly rounded. 



Long., excl. tegm., GJ, to 7 mm. ; exp. tegm. 21 mm. 



Ilab. Queensland {F'P.Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



A larger and more brightly coloured species than R. ron- 

 fusa, Melich. ; tegmina with their apices convex. 



Marleyia, gen. nov. 



Veitcx short, broad, the lateral margins distinctly, the 

 anterior margin more finely ridged, centrally longitudinally 

 Ann. (D Ma(/. X. Bist. Ser. 8. I'oi. iv. 2 J 



